Cristina Garrido (b. 1986, Madrid, Spain) is an artist based in Madrid. Having studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (2004-2009) and Camberwell College of Arts (2007-2008), she obtained a Master of Fine Arts at Wimbledon College of Art (2010-2011) with a Scholarship from the Fundació “la Caixa ” for postgraduate studies in Great Britain. She has been awarded the Generation 2015 Art Projects Montemadrid Foundation Award (2015), the Botín Foundation Visual Arts Grant (2017-2018) and the ARCO Award for Young Artists (2018).

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at The British Museum (London), On Curating Project Space (Zürich), Centro Botín (Santander), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Móstoles / Madrid), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC). ) (Seville), CASS Sculpture Foundation (West Sussex), Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels), Estonian Contemporary Art Museum – EKKM (Tallinn), CentroCentro (Madrid), l´ISELP – institut supérieur pour l’étude du langage plastique (Brussels), MAC Birmingham (Birmingham), Odeón Space (Bogotá), Luís Soane Foundation (A Coruña), Visual Arts Development Center (Havana), Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol (Innsbruck), SESC Sorocaba (Sorocaba / Sâo Paulo)), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Lugar a Dudas (Cali), Spike Island (Bristol), Matadero (Madrid) and AKV St. Joost (Den Bosch), among others. She has been a resident artist at Casa Maauad (Mexico City), Artist X Artist (Havana) and: BARIL Gallery (Cluj-Napoca).